Famous for Rapid Trip Around the World in 1889 and Other Daring Exploits

                OBITUARY

                By THE NEW YORK TIMES

                 Mrs. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, known to thousands of people throughout the world
                as Nellie Bly, her nom de plume, died yesterday morning of pneumonia at the age of 56 in St.
                Mark's Hospital, to which she was removed a few days ago from her rooms in the Hotel McAlpin.
                Services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth
                Avenue and Tenth Street. Friends may view the body today at the funeral parlors of Herbert H.
                Baxter, 597 Lexington Avenue.

                Born at Cochrane's Mills, Pa., a town founded by her father, Judge Cochrane,
                Elizabeth Cochrane found herself penniless when still in her teens and
                began her journalistic career writing for a Pittsburgh paper at $5 a week.
                Later she reached a high water mark of $25,000 earned with her pen in one
                year.

                She went down into the sea in a diving bell and up in the air in a balloon and
                lived in an insane asylum as a patient; but the feat that made her famous was
                her trip around the world in 1889. She was sent by The World to beat the
                mark of Phileas Fogg, Jules Verne's hero of "Around the World in Eighty
                Days," and she succeeded, making the tour in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes.
                Every one who read newspapers followed her progress and she landed in
                New York a national character.

                In 1895, she married Robert L. Seaman, forty years her senior, President of
                the American Steel Barrel Company and the Ironclad Manufacturing
                Company. They lived happily together at 15 West Thirty-Seventh Street, and
                on Mr. Seaman's death in 1910 she took entire charge of the properties.
                Luck turned against her, however, and a series of forgeries by her employees,
                disputes of various sorts, bankruptcy and a mass of vexations and costly
                litigations swallowed up Nellie Bly's fortune. Her courage and liveliness
                remained, however, and she returned to journalism with all her old spirit. At
                the time of her death she was a member of the staff of The New York
                Evening Journal.